Our Services
Providing Quality Care
VCU Health's Sports Medicine Clinic treats all patients with the same quality care we provide university and professional athletes.
Our vast array of athletic injury care and specialties include:
Non-operative:
- Comprehensive physical therapy
- Steroid and hyaluronic acid (gel) injections
- Regenerative medicine: PRP/stem cell injections
- Ultrasound guided injections and treatments
- Dry needling
- Aquatic therapy
- Compartment syndrome evaluation
- Run/gait analysis
Operative:
Knee
- Knee arthroscopy
- Ligament reconstruction/repair
- Multi-ligamentous knee injuries
- Meniscus repair/debridement
- Meniscus transplant
- Cartilage restoration/joint preservation (microfracture, osteochondral autograft transfer, autologous chondrocyte implantation, osteochondral allograft transplant)
- Realignment procedures
- Patellar instability and anterior knee pain
- Knee replacement
Shoulder
- Rotator cuff repair and reconstruction
- Superior capsular reconstruction
- Biceps tendon procedures (SLAP repair, biceps tenodesis)
- AC joint reconstruction
- Treatment of the throwing shoulder
- Labral repair/shoulder instability
- Laterjet procedure for recurrent instability
- Joint preservation
- Shoulder fracture fixation
- Shoulder replacement
Hip
- Hip arthroscopy with labral repair and osteoplasty, utilizing postless technology and intraoperative guidance software
- Labral debridement
- Labral reconstruction procedures
- Core decompression
- Periacetabular osteotomy (PAO)
Elbow
- UCL reconstruction and repair
- Elbow arthroscopy
- Tennis elbow release
- OCD treatment
Ankle
- Ankle arthroscopy
- Ankle fracture fixation
- Ligament reconstruction
- Achilles tendon repair/reconstruction, utilizing both open and minimally invasive techniques
- OCD treatment
"I was in a car accident and basically broke everything but my right arm. Dr. Cheatham put me back together."
–Manuel Dip, patient
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